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[–] 10 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Cue the idiots from .ML saying that the Taliban are the good guys because they’re fighting western imperialism.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Names have changed, but isn't Taliban basically the guys that kicked Russian ass few decades ago?

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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago

    The Taliban were founded in Kandahar in 1994, their founder and many of the experienced fighters who joined them had previously been Afghan mujahideen though. There were a lot of factions that were fighting each other in the aftermath of the Soviet-supported government’s collapse since the broad group of Afghan mujahideen agreed on fighting the Soviets but not on all the other things.

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